Some card tricks commonly considered magic tricks require fairly good manual dexterity in order to shuffle the deck, palm a card, and do a double lift or a pinky block. Others require careful shuffling, counting and moving stacks of cards around in just the right order to get the desired results.
Here's a magic card trick that requires very little preparation and doesn't even require any particular dexterity in order for you to make it look good. In fact, this is a magic card trick that a child could easily do and make it look good. The important thing is to practice until you've got the movements perfected and to practice your patter as well.
Advance preparation is to find two cards of the same suite and class, such as two queen of diamonds cards. One of these cards should be placed in your wallet. The other matching queen should be placed on top of the deck that's on the table. On one side of the wallet place a small piece of magician's tape or double-sided tape.
When you are ready to begin the trick, ask a member of the audience to come forward and pick a card from the deck. Ask them to place it on top of the stack of cards on the table without looking at it. Then, pull the wallet from your pocket and talk about how you are able to make predictions of the future. Tell your audience that in your wallet is proof of your statement.
During your spiel, casually lay the wallet, sticky-tape side down on the deck of cards. The top card which is the one your audience member chose will stick to the wallet due to the sticky tape, but don't let the audience see the card and tape. Open the wallet slowly, making the suspense last and pull out the queen of diamonds cards that you placed there earlier.
Then slowly turn the top card over revealing the queen of diamonds on that card and the match with the one pulled from your wallet. It's important to let no one see the unknown card which is stuck to your wallet.
Another card trick which does require an accomplice, but is easy to do and makes it appear that you can read minds is similar to a Whispering Queen trick. First you make a point of pulling the Queen of Diamonds out of the deck and show everyone that you have it. Then proceed to deal a nine card array face up, 3 by 3 cards, taking note of which nine cards are where. Have an audience member lightly touch one of the cards, while you have your back turned. You can even hold the red queen up saying she is taking note of which card was selected so she can tell you.
Then, hold the card up to your ear as if you are listening. After building the suspense, hand the queen to your accomplice and ask him to examine the card to make sure it's not a mini camera and no mirrors, etc. Once he has examined the card saying nothing is out of the ordinary with it, he will be pre-instructed to lay the card down casually in front of him in the same position as the card selected by the audience member.
Then it is an easy matter for you to select the correct card from the display, and your audience won't be able to figure out how you knew which card to select.
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